1. Notebooks due 9-14 Why Charlottesville? Article summaries
Chapter 1 sections 1 and 2 checkpoint questions
9/11 interview
9/11 lasting effects summaries
9/11 RAFT

2. Menu = Law

3. Objective: Design a healthy school lunch menu that has been approved by all four groups

4. 1 Head Chef
5-7 Food Stylists
15+ Menu Planners
3 Nutrition Analysts

5. Lead Chef suggests food categories: Pass suggestions to Menu Planners1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. Menu Planners write a menu Vote then pass on to Food Stylists

7. Food Stylists refine the menu Vote then pass to back to Planners for approval
Original Menu
Refined Menu

8. Planners vote to approve revised menu Pass to Head Chef
Original Menu
Refined Menu

9. Head Chef approves or disapproves
If Head Chef approves the menu, it passes to the Nutrition Inspectors
If Head Chef disapproves the menu, it goes back to the Stylists and Planners
Stylists and Planners can revise the menu and resubmit it OR
A 2/3 vote can override the Head Chef’s decision

10. Nutrition Inspectors give final approval
Is the menu nutritious?
Majority must approve

11. Constitutional Separation of Powers
Head Chef
Nutrition Inspectors
Food Stylists
Menu Planners

12. Food Stylists = Senators
100 total
2 per state
Serve for six years

13. Menu Planners = Representatives
435 total
Proportionate to population
Least - Montana – 1 (7 states have only 1)
Washington – 10
Most - California – 53
Serve for two years (reelection every even year)

14. President = Lead Chef Elected by Electoral College 538 electors =
435 Representatives
100 Senators
3 electors given to the District of Columbia (these are NOT the Nutrition Inspectors)
Serves for 4 years – maximum of 2 terms

15. Clinton: 65,844,954 (48.2%) Trump: 62,979,879 (46.1%)

17. Nutrition Inspectors = Supreme Court
9 judges
Appointed by President
Approved by the Senate
Serve for life

21. Deeper thinking
Even though there are three equal branches of our government defined by our constitution, do you believe that one has more power over the other two and why? Be specefic in your explanation.
Evaluate and explain what you believe the most important power each of the 3 branches of government possess. Which branch has the single greatest power?

23. Preamble of the Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

24. Find a time in history in which the system of checks and balances was challenged the most. What was the result? (Application)